When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.